6 “Know, therefore, that the Lord your God is not giving you this good land to possess because of your righteousness, for you are a stubborn people. 7 Remember and do not forget how you provoked the Lord your God to wrath in the wilderness. From the day you came out of the land of Egypt until you came to this place, you have been rebellious against the Lord. 8 Even at Horeb you provoked the Lord to wrath, and the Lord was so angry with you that he was ready to destroy you. (Deuteronomy 9)
Do not forget. How easy it is for us to do so. We look around us and see so much evil, and the consequences that people bring upon themselves, that we begin to think we are chosen, blessed, and entitled because we are so much "better". Don't fall into that trap. There are blessings for faith and obedience, but even our faith is not from ourselves. It too is "the gift of God." We can look back in our lives a good ways, or as far back as yesterday, and see how our sin, rebellion, and lack of faith have driven God crazy. Even after God shows us over and over again how faithful He is, and how forgiving He is, we take those things for granted. But rather than wrath, He has chosen mercy. May the newness of His mercies every day, including today, remind us we have no right to any kind of self-righteousness.
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